All Ages community Sculpture & Photography Workshop
@ Bronx River Art Center 1087 East Tremont Avenue Bronx, NY 10460
Thursday November 18, 2021 2pm-6pm
RSVP FREE eventbrite open to BIPOC families of all ages
Mama Spa Botanica is a reproductive justice care workshop created by and for communities of color to heal and navigate the reproductive health crisis in America. Culture is full spectrum medicine in a femilia multisensory salon where matriarchal resistance traditions are celebrated from biological to biographical interdependence and wellness traditions that strengthen our community’s health. Centering BIPOC families (chosen and inherited), the workshop invites all ages of the community to collaborate in a free hands-on documentary photography and sculpture casting workshop. To visualize our colorful care support system, workshop participants will make plaster “mother molds” of their faces and hands to engage their embodied wisdom and critical perspectives on transcending trauma while celebrating their matrilineal traditions. Healing rituals are exchanged with public health advocates ranging from community organizers and artists. The sculptures and photographs will join maternal figures in artist Coralina Rodriguez Meyer’s immersive installation at BRAC. Participants will reclaim their work as mementos for future agency building when the exhibition ends on December 12, 2021.
Workshop participants will explore identity constructions within the BIPOC community by creating self portraits in a physical and emotional safe space at BRAC’s Mamá Spa Botánica. Celebrating our diaspora’s resistance mythologies, survival skills and community building traditions, the workshop will digitally and sculpturally archive participant’s wisdom by filming conversations, photographing retablo portraiture and casting their faces or hands to join the immersive retablos at BRAC. Critiquing and transcending inherited structures of violence that traumatize our mental and physical health; participants will identify, celebrate and pass on their survival support traditions to future generations of youth, elders and ancestors.
RSVP & Free Tix open to all diaspora family members https://www.eventbrite.com/o/bronx-river-art-center-5987115479
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